Skip to main content

tv   France 24  LINKTV  August 15, 2018 5:30am-6:01am PDT

5:30 am
>> tuessay's dramatic bridge the death toll rises tt 38. hundreds hhve been evacuated amid fears another part of the %more than 1000 children sexuuly abused by priests in pennsylvania. it's thought to be the most comprehensive today into abuse
5:31 am
in the u.s..church. aid agencies try to help young earthquake victims deal with we will bring you a reporttby our team on the indonesian island of lombok. back to the france 24 newsroom. first to the italian city of genoa. motorway bridge collapsed yesterday during a a storm. at least 30 cars and three heavy vehicles were on the bridge when at death toll now standing 38. three french nationals are among the dead. it's unclear how many people are missing. italy's deputy prime minister went to the scene of the disaster. at 38. >> instead of reinvesting the into the maintenance of the bridge, -- have been splitting the prrfits between them. collapsed.
5:32 am
for the first time we have a government in italy that hasn't accepted money from the benetton we will be annlyzing the contract and we are ready to revoke their l licenses and find them up to 150 million euros. >> firefighters are working they have been working all night. there is around 130 emergency personnel in total percent includes emergency personnel -- in total. they re equipped essentially the same way hey would be for an earthquake. people wearing climbing there are giant cranes behind m1 to lift very heavy ieces of metal and reinforced concrete.
5:33 am
%uthorities belleve there are still people trapped inside. to find people still stuck beneath the rubble. paramedic who said that last night they found three bodies n the rubble. they expect to find more.% the operation should be very concrete are very heavy. they are eepectiig more equipmenn to lift these big pieces. peopleave hope to find even in nine or 10 days. we also spoke with the head of the local police force who told thehat the heart of operation is really underneath the bridge but that they haae also sent patrols of police to nearby houses to make sure hat there's no looting as sometimes
5:34 am
happens in these types of situations. questions have been raised about the safety of the bridge hich openee in 1967. blamed the collapse on poorhas maintenance. infrastructure has long ccused much debate. the interior inister pointing% the finger at brussels. t the uestion italian people are asking. howwcould such a catastrophe happen? but theebridge weaknesses were well-known. -pit was built over 50 years ago and hasn''t had sufficient maintenance. kilometers the -pcombined lennth of italy's ros would stretch more than halfway around the world. -ppt's a network that's been creaking with warning signs for years.
5:35 am
the bridge was an ennree to the following march another fell in ancona, killing twoopeople. pieemont. a dozen bridges have fallen since 2004. the previous government ratcheting up inveetments in a pleege that brokoka decade-l-log reductioion of infrastruructure spending. the new interior minister is keen to keep hiking it up. i don't think it mmkes sense when they tell us we can't spend some eu constraints are stopping us. we need to speed a lot of money to secure roads, railwayss streams, rivers and embankments. to keep roads up to scratch, they need to .5 billion euros of investmentteach year. the prevvous government was only able to allocate 5.6 billion
5:36 am
over five years. even thissfigure is looking unrealisticc spending isscurrently reaching just over half its annual target. the lltest on the diplomattc spat between turkey and the u.s. it has contributeddto the fall% of the lira.%%-turkey has decide the tariffs on some u.s. goods. the government saying that's in retaliation for what it calls to liberate attacks on the economy by washington. u.s. double to the turkish steel tariffs on cars, coal, cosmetics and rice are also going up. the cover-up was sophisticated. josh shapiro as a repprt was released on tuesday on an inquiry into child sex abuse by catholic priests. the repoot calling them predators.
5:37 am
it says that over theelast 70 priests abused more than 1000 children in pennsylvania. joining me now, doug herbert. joining meit'')s the first timen investigation on this scale in the u.s. >> by a government agency. it's also important to say in we recently saw in australia a four-year government inquiry. intooinstitutional responses to child sexual abuse. across society. not juss within the church. wwat we are seeing here is a giant state run by the attorrey general's office inquiry that took two years. 500,000ved examining half a million documents. internal documents frrmmthe archives in the state of pennsylvania. : dozens of testimonial wittesses to the stand. including the bishop of the county -- sixyuri
5:38 am
of pennsylvania is a diocese were the subjects of this report. a quarter of pennsylvania's is catholic. 1.7 millionncatholics are within the churches that were investigated in this inquiry. this was massive by any account. we have seen ever since 2002 when the allegations in the boston church came to light. that gave way to a major ilm called spotlight which investigated the pedophilia charges within the boston church. that led to some institutional reforrs. it led to pledges to change the serieshen we have had a of smmller repoots. attorney generals and grand juries in the u.s. often they only looked at a single diocese or a single case. this is massive. with such an impact in thewn
5:39 am
-punited states. the size of pennsylvania's estate. the importance of the catholicc1 church. the time spent on this inquiry ann the people involved in the actual teetimonyyand wwat it found. by its own findings it is the broadest government examination pnto abuses in the catholic prosecute's haad to when so much of this abuse was >> absolutely.% this inquiry involved behavior by predatory priests. more than 300 of them. dating back 70 years. that means the earliest cases a lot of abuses involved in this to thedate back perhaps 70's, 80's, 90's. there's a statute of limitations phurch has fought against trying to have change which basically means that if you arr alreadyyat the aae f 30 and you suffered
5:40 am
child abuse as a kid within the church it's too late to pursue charges. are 1000 identifiable -pvictims in this case. and that is a eyword. they assume there are perhaps thousands more cases in which either records were lost or never written in the first place to report these cases ere the victims themselves and this is extremely common aa you can imagine were to psychologically scarred and too afraid to come forward and report it. it's not a cliche to say this is the tip of a much larger iceberg in this ne state. basically right noo we re looking at a phenomenon ongoing. offlimitations to enable more people to come forward. thank you very mucc. israel has reopened the main cargo crossing with the gaza
5:41 am
strip. it as shut over a month ago in retaliatioo for inceediary kite and balloon attacks. the defense minister saying this violence doesn't.lm pays, egypt attempts to broker a long-term cease-fire between israel and hhmas and improve the humanitarian situation in gaza. there has been a taliban attack on two checkpoints in northern at least 30 soldieiers and polie were killed lateeon tuesday. city of -- continue. the city appears to have the upper hand. we are getting reports of shots reopening. the taliban phrase in a on the city was oo friday. assault on theecity was on friday.
5:42 am
police are questiooing a 29-year-old british citizen -- sudan. from sue don. nick rushworth reports. the car was driven from birmingham to loodoo late capital just after midnight. the driver alone in the vehicle targeted cyclists and passersby beforee6 c13 c1nt slamming into a barrier protecting the building. that was early tuesday. police every properties in birmrmingh. the driver is being held at a london police station. a terrorist incident. it mucheed to investigate more. it's limited in what i can say at this point..6 c13 c1 the police have said it's a
5:43 am
29-year-old that's a u.k. national. >> he is suspected of reparing a terrorist attack. no weapons were found in the car. he remained calm while eing led away. a pospital with non-lifeethreatening woundd..6 1 both have since been discharggd. the e third person was treated t the public to remain vigilant and praised emergency responders. >> my houghts are wiih those westminstee and many thanks to the ememergency services for t r immedidiate and courageous response. >> the british government says 13 islamists and four far right extrrmist plots have been foiled in the u.kk in the last 18 months. wewestminster was the scene of a terrorist attackklast year when a british convert to islam tro a car of pedestrians before stabbing a police officer. and injured 50 others. it has been 10 days
5:44 am
since an earthquaae hit the indonessan iiland of lombok, pilling 430 people and displacing hundreds of thousands. -pamong those whose lives have children. aid agencies are trying to help phem overcome their trauma. >> the children were delighted when they heard to the village. volunteer workers here to entertain an excited crowd to -- ccowd. they played ededucational games% how to stop the spread of diseases. the frequent aftershocks mean the children rarely relax. >> they're having really high trauma. even whennthey sit down they feel like there is n earthquake coming. they start crying and then ww need to do something about it.
5:45 am
we use some methods and stuuy. >> ne way of helping the children overcome their trauma is to have them draw. they migight not be able to sayn words. and seeingr homes people injured was deeply disturbing. this young grow past out when the earthquake hit. out hen thhd earthquake hit. >> our lives have changed completelyy before the earthquake i used to eat all types of good food. now there's not much to eat. i just eat noodles. >> i want everything to go back to normal. i want to go back to school and play with my friends. >> it will take weeks if not months to reopen the schools destroyed by the earthquake. it's not safeeyet for he children to return here. villagers re slowly cleaning up the rubble.
5:46 am
they will need money and assistance frommthe government lombok.ild the schools across claire: that's it for now. thanks for watching. >> and every daa seen here in djibouti. >> are animals. there are camels and goats. we have to be careful not to have an accident. >> this 4 x 4 is caring precious cargo.
5:47 am
got 520 kklos..6 c13 c1 >> this vehicle is caring half a ton of h from thiopia. that sort of quantity is worth tens of thousaads of euros. quickly as possible. after two hourr on the from midmorning onwards,. djibouti is flooded with these green leaves. floww into the country at a rate of 15 tons a dayy whee chewed the plant has a siiilar ffect to amphetamines and it ii used by about half of
5:48 am
the men in djibouti. its sale is controlled by thee61 state and the market provides -pthe capital alone. it is rrsponsible for around d % also represent a money pit for many households herere. it ii midday and ali is headed home with his dose. he works as a fireman and spends between five and 10 euros every day n tte drugg his wife has to make do with a daily budget of arounund five euros fofor the family's mealss the mother of five s fed up of having to go without. the khat, wep with could buy a house.
5:49 am
we coulddhave made for dinner. we want to buy the children clothes and shoes. if you were to stop taking it that's a lot oo extra money. since he's been using it, a mina says her husband is a ,ow he's just in love with khat >> today the children havv meet pith their meal. ssecialnse reserved for their father is aware of the impact of his consumption on his ffmily but he feels trapped by his ddiction. he says he can't ccntrol his dessre to nibble or to the leaves. >> there is one thing. some ssying it just pushes you. it's like a lock ttat chimes at a certrtn time. go find something to nibble on.1
5:50 am
mooey.f you don't haveve any give you credit.t. that.hen it jjst goes on like >> when he's not working, aal he his s afternoon a at home with s friends. as it takee hold,,he loses track of time and he's overwheemed by it, you gettake awaa f from money problems. you get away from problems at home. you get away rom all the% problems that are out here. you escape from all the problems in your life that yyu have to dedeal with. >> this family is representativv of manin djibout
5:51 am
on averagege 40% of hhousehold budgets s go towards khat. chewing the leaves has developed from an aacestral ritual to a modern economy which grew by 7% last year thanks to foreign investment. while it is for been innoffices tolerated on building sites. here every day around lunchtime to stock up on essential provisions..6 c13 c1 at the site where he works, conditions are harsh with men toiling in the 40 degrees heat. he as been chewing since adolescence. >> once i stopped nibbling i feel lighter. bit more. stopped nibblinn. i feel the surge to work more.
5:52 am
> for hisscoworker, it's impossibible to do without it.t. >> i can't feel my body anymore. wouldn't feel it. if there was someesort of exceptional circumstance i could go to worr without it. but i would be a lot less >> a stimulant for thh workers, peopll involved in the trade to make a living. and as the coontry's largest informal economic sector, it is an important source of income for the state. at six euros per kilo, the plant accounts for 15% of tax revenues. that's around 15 million euros with so much at stake the government admits it's difficult to take effective actionnagainst tte high consumption levelss
5:53 am
take drastic measures by which we say all right, as of tomorrow consuming there's an entire eccnomicgal. the trade. that issue is at the heart of our long-term vision. looking at how we can create another kind of commercial interest so that those who live from this trade to not ffnd themselves without any income from oneeday to the next. >> since the country's independence, he state has a monopoly on all sales. it maintains that with the help of 144 familiessselected as lifelong shareholders in the organization which oversses the the last 40 years it has ad a stranglehold on the majority of activity in the sector.
5:54 am
the hands of loyal supporters of the regime. abdul is a staunch opponent of the president and has called out politicians who use it to further their own n agendas. >> thehe barons with thhse huge windfalls, they're very rich people who help prop up p the financially speaking. so they fund state projects. sometimes these are controversial social projects. and sometimes thhy a are buying pepeopll support. -pduring electoral campaigns thy cash that t the rulingng party s put asiie so that they can win over plenty of people. >> these iages were filmed wiih a hidden camamera. show cap ing distributed as people leave the polling stationn
5:55 am
it's familiar scene at election timime. the way y for the government to curry favor with ttee localals. midnight in tte orth of the coontry. these men are working quickly and quietly careful not to bee61 noticed. caring 30 kilos of clandestine i'm cap. it is sold for five times less than the legal version. they dealing and contraband. graduate could find. %>> life for students is meaningless. they studidiid hard and have qualifications. degrees in all that good but they are not doing anything.
5:56 am
time.just stay at hohome the whe >> we meet up with hissfriends and pick up the rail of thh clandestine i'm cat. pt's a well trodden path that ttey know by heart. the traffickers get around on a motorbike ntil they get wind of a policc roadblock which forces them off the road. they take a detour into the it's impossible to estimate just how much contraband activity is taking place here. loccls say it's on the rise.
5:57 am
the clinic is situated in a modest neighborhood off djibouti city. >> come and lie down.
5:58 am
5:59 am
osów
6:00 am
narrator: 20 million people live here at the mouth of the yangtze river, in shanghai, the city that is the pulse of china's economy. ♪ music david sutton: this is the most dynamic place i've ever lived. and it could be the model for the world or it could be a disaster. narrator: shanghai is to china what new york is to america. a symbol of success and a warning about the price that may have to be paid. professor geofoffrey heal: china isn't just an economic super power these days, it's a green house gas super power too. china has now

108 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on